Monday again and we’re back in Vancouver after a week of 8 to 6 thinking, 6 to 8 drinking, and more food than I want to ever see again.

This week I tried really hard not to talk about Google+. Instead, we have stories from across the web on anonymizing internet connections, Google Page Rank, remarketing with PPC, and analyzing your email. To read more… well, you know what to do.

Create

An interesting development this weekend, a group of researchers have developed and released a proof-of-concept for Telex, an IPless anonymizing solution for internet traffic. At his blog, J.Alex Halderman discusses how the system works.

Analyze

Avinash is talking about a topic close to my heart: using analytics with your email marketing campaigns. Beyond the basics (because Avinash ALWAYS goes beyond the basics) there are some really great medium level metrics presented here, such his more complex version of bounce rate, or profitability measurements.

Optimize

The ever cool UX Booth has a post on Effective Minimalism in Experience Design, which attempts to explain the balance between usability and minimal design. Better, though, are its numerous examples of fantastic minimalism combined with lot sof examples of confusing minimalism. The latter of which is something you don’t hear people discussing too much.